Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan Chapter 1941: 1439: Confrontation (Part 2)
Previously on Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan...
In a flash, those loose cultivators, previously scorned by every group, turned into prized assets that all sides scrambled to recruit with fervor.
This shift caused many loose cultivators to harbor delusions, believing they had risen to prominence and could now selectively join sects or families.
Spotting such loose cultivators was easy—they were clearly dazzled by fleeting success, clouding their judgment.
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Right now, in the Floating Light Realm, war's fury blazed unchecked over the territories, with innumerable lives perishing amid the turmoil.
However, this chaos marks the inevitable toll of world invasion!
Without crushing the native forces, how else could one seize control of the realm?
For the time being, these events barely touched Li Zhirui, as he avoided actively destroying local groups; his key duty remained securing the camp.
Perhaps due to the heavy defeats the Floating Light Realm's cultivators had endured against him earlier, no one now ventured near his position.
This peace granted Li Zhirui a serene space, free from interruptions, where he could immerse himself in grasping the Purification Principle, bolstering his knowledge, and refining his personal laws.
Regrettably, being merely a Middle Thousand World, the Floating Light Realm offered a Purification Principle with its own peculiarities, but nothing profound. Li Zhirui grasped it fully without much effort or delay.
His cultivation base also advanced slightly during this period.
Some days later, Li Mingyao made his way back to the base.
“Ancestor Rui, affairs here are wrapped up, and there's no immediate call for my presence, so I'll return ahead.”
“Alright.”
Li Zhirui replied, “Go on back. Should your help be required later, I'll send word to summon you.”
Li Mingyao gave a nod of assent, then crossed the spatial rift to reenter the Primal Spirit Realm.
Among the Li family's initial trio of Heavenly Immortals, only Li Zhixuan stayed directly engaged. This invasion tied straight to clearing her karmic ties for a seamless transcendence, demanding her full attention and vigor.
She commanded a team of elite family members, charging through the floating light domains to strike at the strongest Immortal Dao influences.
In her drive to swiftly dismantle the Floating Light Realm's Immortal Dao forces, Li Zhixuan held back nothing, unleashing her full might every encounter.
No longer did she allow her kin opportunities for battle honing; speed was her sole priority.
Her relentless strategy proved highly successful— in less than half a month, she eradicated multiple key factions!
This unleashed a massive peril upon the realm's inhabitants!
Prior to these events, the Immortal Dao forces had already felt Li Zhixuan's ruthless edge and sought alliances with the Demonic Tao and Devil Race, aiming to bury old feuds and unite against the intruders.
To their shock, the Demonic Tao and Devil Race showed no interest in joining, opting instead to observe idly as Immortal Dao's might dwindled.
Their scheme was straightforward: rally the entire Floating Light Realm's strength to expel the invaders, but first, let those foes cripple and curb Immortal Dao severely.
With the invaders repelled, they would then consume Immortal Dao's assets and lands, ensuring its utter end in the Floating Light Realm!
After repeated refusals from Demonic Tao and Devil Race to aid Immortal Dao, the latter finally pierced their selfish plots.
In that instant, Immortal Dao practitioners were struck with deep despair—how could such shortsighted fools exist, fixated on trivial short-term wins, blind to the reality that the cold lips mean the teeth perish?
When Demonic Tao and Devil Race deemed Immortal Dao sufficiently diminished and extended their own overtures, horror gripped them upon discovering only two of the five primary Immortal Dao sects endured!
The remaining three had fallen to Li Zhixuan and her kin as Demonic Tao and Devil Race idled; their inheritances and treasures now filled the Li family's Scripture Storage Hall and vaults, or the storage artifacts of the clansmen.
Beyond those three elite Immortal Dao powers, countless other Immortal Dao groups were also annihilated, with loose cultivators contributing substantially!
Though individually feeble, their vast numbers compensated for gaps in the Li family's ranks to some degree.
With Immortal Dao reduced by over half, Demonic Tao and Devil Race at last perceived the looming threat, gripped by rising dread.
“How could this happen! Their power is ridiculously overwhelming—shouldn't the Heavenly Dao be restraining them?”
“Hahahahahaha…”
As Demonic Tao and Devil Race envoys confronted the leader of an Immortal Dao sect, his response was a thunderous burst of laughter, tears flowing freely.
Yet his face hardened abruptly into frost, and he snarled, “You fools obsessed with narrow self-gain! You schemed to wield the invaders against Immortal Dao, planning to swallow it afterward!”
“But you overlooked how their ranks swelled explosively through it all. Even if each is feeble, countless ants can slay an elephant—especially with their Mahayana, Tribulation Transcendence, Individual Immortal, and Human Immortal experts!”
“Scared now? Where was your backbone earlier!”
Faced with the sect leader's finger-jabbing tirade, the Demonic Tao and Devil Race envoys flushed with embarrassment. Rage urged them to leave in fury, yet recalling Immortal Dao's near-total destruction and impending doom, they choked down their fury and endured.
They grasped well the lips-and-teeth bond; earlier blindness had hidden the peril from them.
Aware now, they vowed against such blunders.
The crisis demanded swift alliance, merging forces to repel the formidable foes!
Before long, Li Zhixuan noticed the shift—once the Floating Light Realm's denizens forged unity, a particular Immortal Dao group grew immensely tougher to overcome.
Peering via the formation, she spotted not just cultivators within, but demon cultivators and devil race members as well.
“Heh!”
A sneer escaped Li Zhixuan, “Team up at this stage? Far too late, isn't it?!”
Still, she conceded that their three-way pact rendered them genuinely challenging opponents.
Meanwhile—
“Hmm? What brings you all here?”
Back at the camp, Li Zhirui was surprised to see Da Qing, Xiaoqing, and Cang emerge first from the spatial rift.
“Word reached us that Zhixuan stands alone against the full Floating Light Realm, backed only by clansmen and loose cultivators. With idle time on our hands, we thought to offer support,” Da Qing explained.
“This serves as her ordeal…”
Li Zhirui shook his head while replying, “But since you've arrived, heed the compass and assist her.”